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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:10047 comp.os.linux:57482 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.linux Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!csc.canberra.edu.au!pandonia!jan From: jan@pandonia.canberra.edu.au (Jan Newmarch) Subject: Re: Motif libraries - where to get? Message-ID: <jan.768003140@pandonia> Sender: news@csc.canberra.edu.au Nntp-Posting-Host: pandonia.canberra.edu.au Organization: Info Sci & Eng, University of Canberra, AUSTRALIA References: <1994Apr22.041739.2850@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU> <jan.767892480@pandonia> <JKH.94May2230736@nx.ilo.dec.com> Date: 3 May 94 22:12:20 GMT Lines: 37 In <JKH.94May2230736@nx.ilo.dec.com> jkh@nx.ilo.dec.com (Jordan Hubbard) writes: >In article <jan.767892480@pandonia> jan@pandonia.canberra.edu.au (Jan Newmarch) writes: > >Hello, > > As the summary suggests, I am after Motif development tools for X under Linux or > >FreeBSD. I read somewhere that they were available bu no source was suggested. I > >know the stuff is commercial and I am quite willing to pay as it is to help the > >development process for my Thesis. >See the FreeBSD FAQ for a pointer to a company selling Motif for FreeBSD. > tclMotif is a binding of the tcl language to the Motif libraries. This > is available free (executable included) on the standard Linux > archives, and also from csc.canberra.edu.au. To use this, you will be >This won't help if it's just for Linux - you'd STILL need the Motif libraries, >which cost money. tclMotif is just another (albeit nice) interface to Motif >programming, it does not save you from having to still have a valid copy of >Motif. The Motif library is statically linked into the tclMotif binary. You do not need to purchase Motif. >NOW, if by all of this you meant that you were making a statically linked >copy of tclMotif for FreeBSD 1.x available, then you should definately >point a complete path to it! :-) Ok, as well as csc.canberra.edu.au:/pub/motif/tclMotif/* you can also find it on tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/binaries/usr.bin.X11/tclMotif.1.1.bin.tar.gz Jan -- Jan Newmarch, Information Science and Engineering, University of Canberra, PO Box 1, Belconnen, Act 2616 Australia. Tel: (Aust) 6-2012422. Fax: (Aust) 6-2015041 AARNet: jan@ise.canberra.edu.au